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Edna Archer Crawford, Who is Appearing in
and Going."
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'The Importance of Coming
New York, April 12. Is it TOO
EASY TO BE BORN?
Are too -many babies that weren't
wanted brought into the world?
Shouldn't mothers tell their daugh
ters more about the coming of new
lives before the little lives are actual
ly on the way?
SUCH is the "biggest" problem
which the "littlest" theater has just
flashed before the eyes of New York.
This "smallest theater"ia the 4
world" is the new Bramhall Play-"1
house. It is the latest of the famous
"little theaters" for which a fad is,
fast sweeping- the country.
Over on the East-side you find a
little gray house tucked in between
tall buildings. Inside you find an au-
ditorium seating barely 200 persons.'!
The walls are tinted silver; the cefli
ings are dull gold. It was arected infi
secrecy by Butler Davenport, a devo-'
tee of the drama, and the world knew
nothing of the playhouse until it op-a